In this article I’ll present my Service Monitor plasmoid, show what it looks like and what it can do. For those who don’t know what I’m talking about: a plasmoid is a desktop widget for KDE – Service Monitor’s purpose is to monitor the status of background processes (so-called daemons) and to start/stop them. Read more…

I just published my very first KDE plasmoid (desktop widget) written in python. It manages background services (daemons). You can start/stop them with a single click, add arbitrary custom services and share them with other users. The plasmoid can be downloaded via kde-look.org. If you have any question about it, feel free to use the comment section as a discussion forum.